Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Jul 25, 2000 09:18
23 yrs ago
English term
skunk
Non-PRO
English to Russian
Other
The animal.
Proposed translations
(Russian)
| 0 | Скунс (Skuns); Vonyuchka |
Dm_Ch (X)
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| 0 | вонючка, скунс |
Mark Bernardini
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| 0 | скунс |
allys
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| 0 | skuns |
Alexander Kudriavtsev
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Proposed translations
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Скунс (Skuns); Vonyuchka
Iz semeistva kunyich. Oba slova podkhodyat. Vonyuchka - eto ne epitet.
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Mark Bernardini
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Native in Russian
Russian Federation
Since 1978
Native in: Russian 
, Italian
Works in: Russian to Italian, Italian to Russian, French to Italian, and 5 more.
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вонючка, скунс
but also скунсовый мех and, in extension, подлец, подонок. Oxford Russian Dictionary
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Alexander Kudriavtsev
Native in Russian
No job is too big, no fee is too big
Native in: Russian , Belarusian
Works in: English to Belarusian, Polish to Belarusian, Polish to Russian, and 1 more.
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skuns
"Skuns" and never "vonyuchka" as the above suggest. The word is found in magor dictionaries and the second variant is extreamely obsolete if we speak about an animal and not about a human.
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